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ROLL 2 TIE FOR CHALLENGERS AWARD TO OVA KINNMARK (SWEDEN) & NONA GAPRINDASHVILI (USSR) Who will play in Previous division next year, receiving theIR award.

French girl from Paris, 8 years old LAURE MELENE CATOZZI presenting NONA GAPRIDASHVILI with further award of chocolates

TIE FOR THIRD PLACE IN PREMIER DIVISION first to receive prize KHASIN (USSR) & LENGYEL (HUNGARY)

SVETOZAR GLIGORIC (Yugoslavia) receiving award.

MIKHAIL TAL FIRST in premier division receiving award.

Various shots of & TAL with NONA GAPRINDASHVILI. & Mayoress OF HASTINGS who presented awards

Initials JRG/V/MR/JG

SPORT: CHESS

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Background: CHESS...AT HASTINGS, ENGLAND, THE FORMER WORLD CHAMPION RUSSIA'S MIKHAIL TAL WON THE 39TH INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT, TODAY (WEDNESDAY). TAL SCORED SEVEN POINTS. SECOND WAS SVETOZAR GLIGORIC OF YUGOSLAVIA WHO SCORED SIX AND A HALF. THIRD AND FOURTH PLACES WERE SHARED BY LEVENTE LENGYEL OF HUNGARY AND A. KHASIN OF RUSSIA WITH SIX POINTS. B. BRINCK-CLAUSSEN OF DENMARK CAME SIXTH WITH FOUR AND A HALF POINTS. TAL BECAME THE YOUNGEST WORLD CHESS CHAMPION OF THE CENTURY IN 1960 WHEN AT THE AGE OF 23 HE DEFEATED HIS PATRIOT MIKHAIL BOTVINNIK. BOTVINNIK REGAINED THE TITLE LATER.

RUSSIA'S WOMAN CHESS CHAMPION NONA GAPRINDASHVILI IS 22. HERE SHE IS PLAYING AGAINST DRAGOSLAV BARETIC OF YUGOSLAVIA. NONA, A UNIVERSITY STUDENT FROM GEORGIA, TIED WITH OVA KINNMARK OF SWEDEN FOR THE CHALLENGER'S AWARD.